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1

Take a multi-million dollar property off the tax rolls? Brilliant idea.

2

this is such a Boomer concept, the idea that land we stole from the indigenous people should be sacred to later individuals, and that ghosts are bound to the land, when we all know their spirits rage amongst the hills and the rivers instead, devouring innocents.

next thing you know you'll say we should expand graveyards, instead of turning them into 100 story MFH towers that we so desperately need for the coming onslaught of Climate Crisis Refugees fleeing the lowlands in the billions (yes, you heard me correctly, billions).

You have 8.5 years to get your acts together.

3

Yeah. Never gonna happen. There is not one memorial to Kurt Cobain in the city of Seattle and there hasn't been one since he killed himself. But the city's been milking his fame for the last 25 years, nonetheless.

4

Yes, this is a good idea. This would raise property values in the neighborhood.

The city could also buy the land and build a drug treatment facility upon it. This would be a bad idea. This would reduce property values in the neighborhood.

5

That's kind of weird! We were just talking about that fella Kurt Cobain. He was from America, right? Imagine blowing your head off with a shotgun. How'd he manage to survive that?

6

The city should turn your mom into a park.

7

"For example, could you imagine selling the actual Roman, wooden cross Jesus was nailed to?"

Yep, that's super easy to imagine. Folks have been selling bits of the True Cross for 2019 years now.

8

"... everyone knows how Cobain's life came to an end."
Everybody, it would seem, except Richard Lee.

9

@7 Jesus was murdered somewhere around 32-34 AD; so it hasn't been 2,000 years quite yet.

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@9 Ah, that's exactly right. Not sure how I managed to conflate the date of Jesus's birth with the date of the crucifixion.

12

That's a ridiculous idea... You're basically suggesting that the city should use public funds to buy the cross (Cobain's house) and then burn it (pull it down). Look to Graceland if you want to know how to enshrine a death house (or The Lorraine Motel). Memphis seems to know how to do these things...

Otherwise let it go the way of the Landmark Motor Hotel, 17-19, rue Beautreillis, and the Samarkand Hotel.

Where people die says much less about them than how they lived (and how they died).

Chuck - I'm shocked you would support creating a public shrine (in the way of a park) to any single individual person (understanding your extreme, and principled, contempt for the individual, and individuality).

13

Now that I've thought about it a bit, it seems The Stranger missed an opportunity here.

If it's clicks you want (and it is always clicks) then you should have suggested the city buy the home and use it as a safe injection site.

14

Buy it, but don't tear it down. Have an artist/musician residency program, tho not in the room he killed himself in. That's the public performance space for the residents.

15

The stranger has a lot of ideas. Some of them good, some of them bad. This is one of the latter.

16

Might want to ask the neighbors how they feel about an endless stream of fans hanging out 24/7 in the potential park and tying up traffic in the neighborhood.

17

@1: And spend millions of tax dollars to do it, too. This would ensure Seattle fails the Great City Test, by putting celebrity over substance. Aberdeen, WA needs to step up!

@3: This city milked Jimi Hendrix’ fame for even longer, and has never spent public money on a memorial to him, unless you count his silhouette on the steps of the old Metro Bus Tunnel Station at Ninth & Pine. (Said Station has since been demolished for further development of the Convention Center. As a wise musician once sang, “It’s money that matters.”)

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@6 - Your mom already IS a park. In Seatac.

19

Will dear, what will you do when one of your cherished 100 story apartment towers gets built next door to you and totally wipes out the sun exposure for your highly theoretical solar array?

20

It's weird how Seattle claims Kurt Cobain. He's an Aberdeen guy, maybe an Olympia guy. Those two types have a lot in common with each other and surprisingly little in common with Seattle guy. Aberdeen guy and Olympia guy are more like Portland guy than Seattle guy, but less affected than Portland guy. But def not a Seattle guy.

For instance, when you propose a silly and uncool idea to Seattle guy he loudly cruxifies you for it, and you are instantly mortified. When you propose a silly and uncool idea to Olympia guy he quietly say "yeah maybe" but won't meet your eye. You think okay then that went well, but then the next day when you wake up realize it didn't and are mortified.

Kurt Cobain was 100% that second guy. Not our guy, their guy.

21

$7.5 million? Well...it seems Kurt's real estate shares something in common with the band he made famous: they're both vastly overrated.

22

@20 Let it go, Seattle's got at least as much claim on Cobain's corpse as it has on Hendrix's corpse or Bruce Lee's corpse.

Maybe some day the city will be big and old enough to have its very own collection of totally legit home-built dead celebrities, but until then, it's going to do what every other small, new city does, and we'll be seeing a lot of updated "George Washington Slept Here" signs.

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@17 - Who put the Jimi Hendrix statue on Broadway near the NE corner with Pine? Was that the city or some private group?

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@23 Someone that knows better feel free to correct me, but I believe it was commissioned by a wealthy real-estate developer, so I guess it's permanently on loan? There was some talk of eventually moving it to a Jimi Hendrix park in the CD that never materialized.

25

In America, as in most countries, you never own land--you just own the right to pay rent (property taxes) on it to the owner: the government. When you stop paying those taxes, the government takes it back and sells the lease to someone else.

My sofa (for example), I own. After I pay for it, the government is never going to come and take it back. Land is always different.

26

When Kurt stayed there (speaking from experience) he was at his worst. Depressed daily, he never wanted to be strong enough to mow the lawn. Or be a dad. He wanted to stay medicated on herion. He just wasnt happy. He had the opportunity to change and heal through treatment and instead he chose death. He didnt see what he had. He only seen what he wish he didnt have. ( Speaking from experience)

27

Just build a moot around the home fill it with snakes and alligators, then shoot all goulists in the legs. Geesh people.

28

@20 you might not be old enough to remember, but the Seattle that Kobain moved to in the late 80s will still a largely blue collar town.


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